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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1893
Page
2
The Recoprose marks its 74th anniversary praising its vigor and truthfulness. It laments unpaid bills, urges subscribers to settle accounts, and warns that those who fail to pay risk spiritual reckoning and loss of benefits.
An examination of church finance argues preachers deserve fair pay but warns against earthly riches. It notes some pastors are well compensated while urging heartfelt support for ministry and condemning parsimony. Also reported are Atlanta crime spikes and a North Carolina Medical Society meeting moving to Raleigh on May 9.
A collage of brief items: a women owned laundry in England earning 25000 dollars, Paris fountains offering hot water for a penny, a 35 ton stone quarried in Norwich, a giant tortoise at Port Louis barracks, mischief with Confederate stamps, royal pearls and diamonds worn by a French queen, Nilsson funded a throat hospital in France, Hungarian gypsy census at 185000, many unmarried men in US/Canada, a wild woman sighting in Tennessee, varied plagues in Kentucky, a Louisiana girl fussing with hoopskirt fashion, a fortune teller’s estate over 40000 dollars, a bear encounter in West Virginia, a 17 year old convict’s brief sentence, a suit over asylum confinement, jokes about weather bills and unsettled forecasts, McKinley’s tariff protection fallout, stamps with beard imagery, a postal joke about whiskered stamps, praising a Providence pen, and Apache Indians stationed at Fort Barrancas in Florida.
A chaotic report notes Tas ministers in Columbus refuse to open the state legislature sessions unless paid at least five dollars per prayer. The piece mixes satire on professions with references to political polls on Hawaii and various anecdotes.
A county woman suffered seven years with severe cough and night troubles after a long illness. She tried a single dose of De King's for Consumption at a shop in Shelburne North Carolina and reports rapid relief and extended sleep. The notice promotes free trial bottles from W A Hamrick & Co.
Readable fragments describe Bucklen's Araica Salve in Durham involving Romero Co. and a new ace. The snippet hints at a product or company note but lacks clear actions or outcomes.
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